How to Play Quintuple Klondike Solitaire

Klondike stretched across five full decks and 20 tableau piles, an extreme variant that rewards patience and careful, wide-scale planning. The goal: Move all 260 cards to the 20 foundation piles.

Setup

1. Deal the first card to the first tableau pile, 2 to the second, 3 to the third, and so on through 20 piles (face up only the top card of each).
2. Place the remaining 50 cards in the stock.

How to play

• Build foundations upward in suit from Ace through King.
• Build tableau piles downward in alternating colors (red on black, black on red).
• Move sequences of cards together when each card is one rank lower and opposite color.
• Only Kings fill empty tableau piles.
• Click the stock to deal 3 cards at a time to the waste.
• When the stock empties, click it to turn the waste over for unlimited redeals.
• Cards automatically move to the foundations once no other card could be built on them (you can change this behavior in Settings).

How to win

Objective: Move all 260 cards to the 20 foundation piles.

You win when all cards are on the foundations. The massive scale makes planning and patience essential.

Tips

• Map out which piles block each other before making moves.
• Prioritize exposing deeply buried cards in the taller starting piles.
• With five decks in play, multiple copies of each rank are available, so don't be afraid to use one you see now.

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Related games

More games from the Klondike family:

• Sextuple Klondike — A massive version of Klondike using six decks with 312 cards.
• Suit Triangle — Suit Triangle is a two-deck variant with a triangular tableau and same-suit building rules.
• Triple Easthaven — Work with 12 tableau piles and 12 foundation piles, dealing cards only once from the stock.
• Tripleharp — Twelve tableau piles are dealt in a staircase from one card up to twelve, backed by a stock that feeds the waste pile through three redeals.
• Triple Klondike — The classic three-deck Klondike variant with 13 tableau piles and unlimited stock redeals.